Archive for March, 2008
Internet
Monday, March 31st, 2008Our internet was out since about 2 pm. I was working using my genealogy program tonight, and just as I was about to turn the computer off, I heard that wonderful signal of incoming email! I don’t know from first-hand knowledge, but was told that a cable was damaged when either a tornado [...]
Funny video
Saturday, March 29th, 2008Corrie at Pineapple Pundit has a funny video uploaded at her blog. Those of you who work in cubicles or small spaces or get frustrated with electronic equipment will particularly appreciate it.
I especially liked the part when after attempting to print something unsuccessfully on the office printer, a frustrated man yanks his monitor away from [...]
What Book Am I?
Friday, March 28th, 2008The Deputy Headmistress posted a link for this book quiz. The questions were interesting. DHM, maybe there is a way that the questions adjust as you answer first one question and so on. So a person answering the first differently may get a different pair for the second and so on.
You’re Watership Down!
by Richard [...]
Flooding right in our backyard
Wednesday, March 19th, 2008Here are some photos from the flooding we’ve had. The first few are from the back of our house and the last few are from down the road but at the corner of our property.
Newspaper Finds of the Day
Wednesday, March 19th, 2008My latest request for microfilm for the Clarksville Star from Clarksville, Iowa came in today.
June 6 1878: Married, by Elder J. W. Moore, at the residence of H.F.L. Burton, n this place, June 3, 1878, Mr. A. L. Van Hoesen and Miss Carrie, eldest daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Burton. Like all young [...]
Quilt Progress
Tuesday, March 11th, 2008Just so that people don’t think I haven’t made any progress on the quilt (you were all thinking that, right?), I thought I’d post the fruits of my labors even if it did languish here and there for the last three weeks or four… I included some of the surrounding territory to give a sense [...]
Civil War Ancestors
Friday, March 7th, 2008Today I got military record packages from the National Archives for two of my ancestors, Albertus L. Van Hoesen and Henry Hunt. Albertus joined up in early 1864 when he was 17 and was injured near Washington D.C. November 26, 1864. Their regiment was fighting at the battle at Fairfax Courthouse that exact [...]
Dad
Monday, March 3rd, 2008Here’s a photo of my dad, compliments of my sister Debbie, at about age 1.